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1Nov 26, '20People are congratulating me on PHP 8. That is completely misdirected. @nikita_ppv and @dstogov have been the driving forces behind PHP for years now. Countless others pitch in reg24.1×01.7k25615
2Nov 28, '19PHP 7.4 is available15.1×07923025
3Dec 6, '18PHP 7.3.0 Go get it!13.8×06683283
4Dec 3, '15PHP 7.0.0 is now available! Thanks to everyone who has worked tirelessly towards this for the past 2 years11.9×02914400
5Nov 26, '20PHP 8! See the super-slick announcement in 4 languages here:9.3×05011605
6Dec 8, '22PHP 8.2 is out! Now the real work begins for the 8.2 release managers @adoyy, @s_panteleev and @ramsey. Be nice to them, please.8.5×05171369
7Feb 26, '16PHP 7 (gc=0) is now quick enough to run a gameboy emulator. Crazy! Even on my X220 from 20127.0×02342240
8Feb 4, '21I have been called many things and had many threats over the years, but wishing for me to step on a Lego brick is going too far!6.4×0453594
9Jun 8, '18The PHP 7.3 release process kicked off yesterday. If you use PHP, please set some time aside to help us test. There is a rough schedule at Download the alpha releases at Thanks to 5.7×02351550
10Aug 1, '17The future has arrived at my dentist. 3D printing my new tooth while I wait5.5×03091000
11May 26, '17Little known fact I learned today. The Romanian minister of Communications is a PHP developer.5.4×02861090
12Oct 12, '16Just arrived in the land of PHP5.2×0237990
14May 30, '18Just arrived in Split, the only large city named after a PHP function. #shiftdev2018 #shiftsplit4.9×0362451
15Jun 12, '15If you haven't already started testing PHP 7, now is the time. 1st alpha release available at4.8×0891940
16Nov 30, '17If you are just waking up, PHP 7.2.0 is out. Thanks to @SaraMG and @RemiCollet for the hard work on the release, to the doc team for getting the release notes out in time, @dstogov4.6×02091120
17Nov 25, '21PHP 8.1 Changelog: Migration Guide:4.5×02677211
18May 11, '18Hey high school programming teachers. If you assign a group programming project, please spend 20 minutes showing the kids how source code control systems work (so I don’t have to)4.3×0287610
19Dec 30, '13For a geek my OCD is fairly mild. But this guy watching LOTR for hours on an iPad Mini in portrait mode drove me nuts4.3×0921560
20Jan 18, '20Built myself a new dev box. This 3950X is incredible! 30s PHP compiles with all major exts and 60s Linux kernel compiles. Running Debian Bullseye for the recent kernel and amdgpu 54.3×0335207
21May 18, '17Hello Istanbul4.2×0249350
22Jul 7, '15I was getting lost in Laravel's class hierarchy so I had phan spit out a *partial* map of it!4.2×01311242
24Jan 28, '15For those who asked how to get started testing PHP7. I have packaged up my dev environment in a Vagrant box:4.2×01171470
25Mar 5, '18Yup, not just breaking the web. Making a mess of databases too :)3.9×0230662
26Apr 21, '15Here are the two graphs: and - Drupal 8 + PHP 7 will make a lot of people happy!3.8×0831430
27Oct 20, '17No, silly human, you cannot price your item at $9.99. Below are your valid alternatives as per IEEE754-2008. How about just making it $10?3.7×0176840
29Oct 26, '183rd question about severless PHP in as many days. There is no such thing as serverless from the PHP perspective. It’s just a different deploy strategy and provider billing model. T3.5×0183642
30Oct 6, '18The crazy Brazilians at PHP Day Curitiba came up with this3.4×0269281
31Jul 31, '17July 31 also known as Off-by-one Day or the day people discover how date math works on UNIX3.4×0156820
32Jul 12, '17Without #NetNeutrality most of the sites you use wouldn't exist. Neither would large collaborative projects like PHP3.3×0881160
33Apr 21, '15My slides from my #PHP 7 talk at #fluentconf today -3.2×0861120
34Oct 24, '18I have a cranky 16-year old ranting about null pointer exceptions in Java. Debugging his code, he was essentially writing C++ and was annoyed to figure out that Java doesn’t alloca3.1×0234250
35May 25, '18Please, send me one more unnecessary GDPR compliance privacy policy update this week. I haven't quite gotten enough yet...3.1×0190411
36Oct 22, '15I just uploaded an updated php7dev vagrant image with quite a improvements. Give it a try -2.9×0821020
37Jul 20, '17The first PHP 7.2.0 beta is available Thanks to the RM team and all the contributors Pls give us a hand and try it:2.9×098890
38Sep 21, '16And it has begun! From my 14-year old son. He asked for help setting up some Java project thing for school, and I couldn't get it working2.8×0196340
39Nov 12, '17Going through my old photos today and came across this 2004 photo I took in Adelaide of Tridge (author of Samba and rsync) trying to convince Linus that there was an extraneous loc2.7×0195310
40Mar 5, '19You know you are on an old plane when your seat has an Ethernet port2.7×0190171
41Apr 26, '23If you are a heavy user of php-memcached, I have added zstd compression to it. Check the PR and try it out please. Remember to use ./configure --with-zstd to enable it.2.7×21k118186
42Jun 8, '15Wow, crazy day! It is about the community and all the devs who have contributed over the years, it is not about me2.7×082860
43Feb 1, '18Release Thursday PHP 7.2.2 and 7.1.14 are out2.7×0110680
44Nov 29, '16Watching PHP 7 power through Etsy Cyber Monday peak traffic at low latencies is a beautiful thing2.7×0147580
45Jan 20, '18To test DigitalOcean's new offerings, I compared similar standard and optimized droplets. The results surprised me. The opt droplet compiled PHP in under 2 min. Std took over 34 mi2.6×0166370
46Oct 24, '18Someone hire Nikita to hack on compilers and make sure you make PHP core hacking part of his job description, please.2.5×0139492
47Dec 1, '15My PHP static analyzer PoC phan has been rewritten by @asmorrison and it can now be found at: - come give us a hand2.5×0104700
48Jul 8, '18It was a good run. I made it to 2018 without ever having a cell phone. What finally did it was getting a Tesla M3. The phone is the car key. It has a data-only sim in it, but it is2.4×0197150
49Jul 2, '15Just pushed the experimental static analyzer for #php I have been working on. Take a look:2.4×079790
50Aug 2, '18PHP 7.3.0 Beta 1 is available at Windows version at Read through the preliminary upgrading document at And file decent bug reports at , please.2.4×0113570
51Jul 10, '15Thank you @digitalocean for sending me this. But I have to admit I am not really sure what to do with it.2.3×097580
52Oct 10, '19I last looked at getting a new VPS back in January 2018. The landscape has changed a bit. This time I took a look at the < $10/month market which has exploded in the last 18 mon2.3×01183713
53Feb 6, '18I can't stop watching the live feed from the starman. Amazing, and from my dinner with Douglas Adams years ago, I know he would have absolutely loved the "Don't Panic!" sign along 2.3×0146360
54Nov 8, '18Release Thursday PHP versions 7.1.24, 7.2.12 and 7.3.0RC5 Please help us test this 7.3 release candidate. See for info on all of these.2.3×0104561
55Dec 7, '18Required reading for this weekend2.3×0112541
56Jun 7, '19I think it is the first time someone has done sketch notes for one of my talks. Looks cool, thanks.2.2×0139295
57May 25, '16Nice numbers going from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7 at Trivago. 100ms response times!2.2×075700
58Jun 5, '17Amazing work by @julienPauli @ircmaxwell and @nikita_ppv on documenting modern PHP internals!2.2×087550
59Nov 13, '17Nice to see PHP 7.1 being the most used PHP version on packagist. This is skewed towards modern composer-based PHP usage, of course, and doesn't count the huge legacy base out ther2.0×0129330
60Dec 3, '163 queries about buying the domain this week. This last one was the most ridiculous.2.0×084360
61Dec 22, '18Nice to be back in Canada. The first sign you see getting off the plane says: “You have arrived in Canada where everyone is welcome”2.0×0161140
62May 4, '18“Dad, my aerospace club needs a web site” I think we can manage that. Let’s go through it together: - VPS (thanks Upcloud) - DNS - ssh key pairs/config - nginx - scp - ssl and cert1.9×0153134
63Oct 22, '15Hey recruiters. Like travel agents, we don't need very many of you anymore, but if we do, we will find you. Stop spamming us!1.9×0104390
65Oct 4, '17Bom dia Fortaleza! Espero ver todos voces no #PHPeste esse fim de semana.1.9×0128240
66Jul 11, '18The grand 5-day Tesla Model 3 San Francisco to Toronto road trip is complete. 4489 km (2789 miles) 670 kWh used 149 Wh/km (240 Wh/mile) Total charging cost US $85.80 ¢1.91/km (¢3.01.9×0125231
67Oct 25, '21When you go to investigate why there are weird electrical sounds coming from your kid’s room and it turns out he has hooked his Minecraft up to a transformer/capacitor/spark circui1.8×0145100
68Oct 13, '18Shorts required for a PHP talk this close to the equator! Thanks a lot to the #phpeste18 organizers for a fun time in São Luís. I always enjoy visiting Brazil.1.7×0117201
69Aug 28, '17has matured and moved out of her parents' house. The project can now be found at1.7×077410
71Nov 9, '18Dad, do you have a transistor? Uh, sure, here you go an hour later... Dad, why did you give me a PNP transistor? I needed an NPN. It turns out he is building another watch. This ti1.6×013791
72May 11, '20Was answering some questions about early PHP days from Etsy folks and I dug up this picture from the Tel Aviv meeting. How many people can you name? If you are in it, you don't get1.6×010880
73Jun 30, '19Ok, now I will have to get a couple of these. Carl and I have been using previous versions for all kinds of projects, of course, so there was never any doubt we would get the new o1.5×098204
74Sep 26, '18Good morning Singapore1.5×013250
75Oct 27, '18phpce starts with an elephpant keynote and a new elephpant in the attendee bag along with a few other things1.5×0107190
76Jan 25, '19Fun time at #PHPBenelux today. Can't go wrong with whisky, chocolate, elephpants and bumper cars! Thanks for the invitation. #phpbnl191.5×0114121
77Nov 15, '17You know you are in Waterloo when your hotel restaurant has this on the wall1.5×083260
78Jan 30, '22Christine got me a calendar from Amazon for my office. It has beautiful photos of interesting places in Denmark. I particularly like the June photo of Neuschwanstein castle, Denmar1.5×012450
79Nov 4, '17Yes, bribes definitely work to get me to a conference #phpruhr171.4×012060
80May 30, '15With Edmond and my awesome "laptop" in some dingy engineering lab at U of Waterloo circa 1991 - photo by Jeff Lewis1.4×082290
81Jul 25, '19When your morning run looks like this it isn't so hard to get out the door.1.4×012451
82Nov 6, '17Completely fascinated by the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal. This amazing thing was built in 1901! #phpruhr171.4×088180
83Nov 7, '20Finally!1.4×012830
85Jul 14, '18The dichroic filter layers that block UV and IR in the Tesla glass roof makes it look quite cool in the rain. The water shifts the refraction into the visible spectrum.1.3×010791
86Jan 22, '18I collected my notes on the 10 VPS providers I tried over the weekend. Here is the detailed write-up including tests for cpu, disk and network on each one.1.3×078240
87Nov 6, '20Somehow I now know every county in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada.1.3×011440
88Mar 11, '17Watching the PHP bug db for the inevitable rush of people discovering DST for the first time1.3×075230
89Nov 1, '20Toronto sunrise windy morning run on DST change day. I don't think I have the energy to check PHP bug reports complaining about date arithmetic being wrong today.1.2×011430
90Jan 23, '18I got a suggestion from @ohffswhatnow to try @Hetzner_Online I did, and it is excellent. I am envious of all the low-cost options you have in Europe. The server with stats to compa1.1×073100
91Jul 17, '19In the Etsy office in Brooklyn again. Every time I visit my co-workers get younger, it seems. I feel like the 2nd photo there. (And yes, that is aged)1.1×09431
92Mar 16, '19Always the last stop before heading to the airport in Montréal1.1×09122
93Sep 9, '17Carl figuring out an arduino in preparation for a complex Nerf mod1.0×08570
94Jun 15, '18Sometimes I have no idea what Carl is building. But it was impressive that he built and coded it in one day.1.0×08920
95May 10, '19Speaker dinner is on a hill above Verona with an amazing view #phpday1.0×08930
96Dec 12, '17The iMac that died last week which I was debugging on Dec.8 actually stopped booting on Dec.6. The 3-year AppleCare expired on Dec.4. Amazing precision for a hard drive failure! Bu1.0×08460
97May 24, '18Getting Carl out of his workshop in the garage to do homework is always a battle. But sometimes his dubious claims that he *is* doing homework are true. Behold a self-contained 3D-1.0×08370
98Aug 1, '18Carl’s homemade watch got a few concerned looks from security at Chicago’s Federal Reserve Bank1.0×08370
99Mar 15, '19A "small" poutine and a Fairmont sesame bagel for lunch. Not sure it is possible to get more Montréal than this0.9×07900
100Dec 29, '17Got my new U.S. green card today. It is actually mostly green now. The previous one was white.0.8×07120

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